Coral Palace Shinkai returned to Sōun Shrine in a furious manner, intending to deal with the matter that had caused heavy losses to Kaiji Island.

But before leaving, she seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly turned her head to Bai Qiyun and said coquettishly.

"Um...Mr. Bai, I'll leave it to you to take care of the food."

However, Bai Qiyun's face was expressionless in response to her coquettishness, and he even had no emotion in his heart.

Because compared to herself who showed her true feelings just now, she looks like she is just pretending now.

So artificial, this woman.

"I understand, you don't need to worry about this."

"Oh, isn't it because people are upset?"

After saying that, Xinhai said "Hey" to the man, and then left the scene.

I've all been told that you're very pretentious like that.

Bai Qiyun couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.

What a good girl, but she was almost schizophrenic due to all the bad things in Haiji Island.

"Forget it, let's go back first."

Bai Qiyun placed a barrier at the entrance of the cave to prevent others from destroying the scene, and then caught up with Kuki Shinobi who was doing nothing on Kaiji Island.

"Your knife."

"oh."

After taking the short sword, Kuki Shinobu's expression was still a little gloomy.

"What's wrong? What's on your mind?"

Although Bai Qiyun is not familiar with Jiuqi Ren, he is his subordinate now. If the other party encounters any difficulties, he still wants to help as much as possible.

But who knew that Jiu Qiren shook his head and said softly.

"It's nothing, I just feel that my practice is not enough."

After witnessing the battle between Bai Qiyun and the Phaseless Water, she realized something deeply.

That is, if you want freedom, money alone is not enough.

A woman like her, even if she has the Eye of God, has almost no power to fight back when she encounters such a big monster.

It can be said that if one of the counterattacks made by the phaseless water in response to Bai Qiyun's attack fell on her, she should have been reported and sacrificed by now.

It was precisely because of this that she became even more convinced of how naive her previous thoughts were.

Freedom is necessary, making money is necessary, but strength is necessary.

This is the price that must be paid to survive on the continent of Teyvat and pursue freedom.

"Yeah."

When Bai Qiyun heard this, he didn't think there was anything wrong.

For most people in this world, they will have similar thoughts when they see the furious appearance of the Formless Water.

But for them, they may not be able to reach such a height in this life.

But it has to be said that Kuki Shinobu is talented. She mastered the Eye of God at a young age and has a ticket to a higher level.

But it's just a ticket.

To get to that level requires not only talent, but also hard work day and night.

Just because she is working in the castle tower now, I am afraid she will never reach that height in her life, just like Barbara who is busy worshiping in the church.

Although there was a divine eye, it was wasted by them.

"Would you like to go to the shrine and learn the magic of the witches?"

Regarding Jiuqin Ren's current situation, Bai Qiyun tried to make the most reliable suggestion.

If you want to improve your strength in a short period of time, it is not realistic to start with elemental power, so you can only use some sideways methods.

"Miko?"

As if a key word had been triggered, Kuki-nin couldn't help but shudder when he heard this word.

This guy won't have any psychological shadow on the miko.

"That's all I'm saying, if you don't want to, forget it."

Bai Qiyun remembered that Kuki Ninja always followed Yae Shenzi every time he appeared. If this guy wanted to learn the onmyoji of a miko, he would have learned it long ago.

He immediately changed the topic.

"There is something strange going on in the cave today, and there are signs of human guidance."

"Man-made? Are you talking about the rampant formless water?"

"Ah, I found coral pearl powder in the tunnel where it emerged. Someone must have deliberately smeared it around the original living environment of the Phaseless Water to guide it to attack the cave."

Looking at Jiuqi Ren's twinkling eyes, Bai Qiyun knew that she had taken it in to think.

But after all, she is not from Haiji Island, so if she wants to draw any conclusion——

"I think it might be the Kaiji Island Chamber of Commerce."

"ha?"

Bai Qiyun never thought that Jiuqi Ren would make a final judgment in such a short period of time.

Facing the young man's surprised gaze, Jiu Qi couldn't help but raised his delicate eyebrows with pride.

This is the first time the man in front of me has shown such an expression since I came out.

Especially after seeing the battle between the other party and the Phaseless Water, she was able to figure out the answer first.

The emotion called pride in Kuki Ren's heart was like grass sprouts in the soil, growing wantonly.

"You...why would you say that?"

"It's a very simple reasoning, but it contains some information that Mr. Bai may not know."

Jiuqi coughed lightly, opened and closed his eyes, raised his fingers and said.

"In fact, the shogunate has already had information that the Chamber of Commerce of Kaiji Island has contacts with some merchants on Narukami Island. They will sell the specialties of Kaiji Island to Narukami Island at low prices, and in order to maintain this low price

After the acquisition, the merchants of Narukami Island will return a portion of the profits to the Chamber of Commerce of Kaiji Island every year."

"Oh I got it."

Hearing this, Bai Qiyun suddenly realized.

No wonder Kuki Shinobu could react so quickly. If he knew such explosive information, his mind would be spinning very quickly.

Bai Qiyun's fingers kept tapping on the railing, and he continued to analyze along with Jiuqi Ren's words.

"In this way, the Chamber of Commerce of Haiji Island was afraid that the Soun Shrine would interfere, so it diverted the specialties originally sold to Narukami Island from Haiji Island to Liyue, so that the local chamber of commerce would not receive any kickbacks.

..No, it’s not just these.”

Although this reason can be regarded as a motive, it is not enough for the Chamber of Commerce to take risks.

After all, activating the phaseless water to attack the breeding base itself also harmed the interests of the chamber of commerce.

And to make these people do it at the risk of harming their own interests, in other words, there are some secrets hidden behind this matter that are enough to make them lose their heads.

For example... revealing information to the enemy by trading supplies during the war.

Thinking of this, Bai Qiyun was shocked by the courage of these people.

But then he thought about it, I'm afraid that only something of this magnitude would allow them to take the risk of being exposed, otherwise it would be impossible to explain such a reckless move.

"Well, I roughly understand it, but after all, this matter is Haiji Island's internal affairs, so it's better for us not to interfere."

"That's what you said."
Chapter completed!